Chapter 297: Purging Operation 1

There is basically nothing to worry about Yu Xiaotian at the moment, everything is moving forward step by step, the construction of Dazhai has basically been completed, and the next thing is to fill the village with various workshops and increase the number of immigrants here.

And for a period of time in the future, the main industry of Jilongzhai is basically determined when Xiaotian comes here, and the main business here is basically determined to be fishery, whaling industry and related industries brought by it, and Jilong Bay will also be used as an important fishing port for sea wolves in the future, and the next step Yu Xiaotian also intends to develop here into an important maritime trade port for sea wolves, as an entrepot base for the Ming Dynasty and the Wa Kingdom and the Ryukyu Kingdom.

After the typhoon passed, Yu Xiaotian took Lin Yiyang around Jilong Bay, and climbed high to inspect the surrounding situation, and instructed Heitou and Sun Baoqiang to set up some outposts on the high ground around Jilong Bay, so that they could directly observe the nearby situation and prevent the enemy from sneaking into Jilong Bay from other places and launching a surprise attack on Jilong Village.

In addition, Yu Xiaotian also personally inspected the soldiers here, and was familiar with the jungle, and took more than 100 soldiers from the chicken coop village into the eastern mountains and forests in the name of hunting, and divided into groups to start a hunting competition.

The conditions for victory are very simple, that is, within three days, who catches more prey will be the winner, and of course their prey also includes a native tribe in the eastern mountains and forests, which has never been in contact with sea wolves before, and has always been hostile to the people of the chicken coop village.

In the past year, some of the people sent by the sea wolf to the east to explore the road have disappeared in their territory, but they have not seen anyone alive or dead, so all along, the black-headed people have suspected that this native tribe did this, but they have not verified this matter before.

However, during this time, another nearby tribe of natives who had been in contact with the sea wolf informed them of the news that their people had accidentally discovered that this tribe had attacked and killed the people sent by the sea wolf to find the way.

So the black-headed they originally planned to use troops against this native tribe after the typhoon ended, and completely cleaned it up, Yu Xiaotian happened to be here at this time, so he naturally wanted to participate in this attack on this native tribe.

This time, Yu Xiaotian did not gather other native tribes to participate in this matter like the last time, but decided that their sea wolves themselves would solve this trouble, and through this operation, they would test the ability of the sea wolf tribes in the chicken coop village to fight in the mountains and forests.

Sun Baoqiang became the planner and commander of this operation, and after arranging the affairs of the chicken coop village, he began to take the personnel into the mountains and forests, and walked towards the area of the chicken coop mountain east of the chicken coop village.

This time, Yu Xiaotian and Sun Baoqiang used about eighty percent of the combat strength of Jilong Village, and brought out more than 100 people from the village, and also brought 50 native auxiliaries with them.

These native auxiliaries were basically some native slaves they captured in the early stage, and they were originally left in the chicken coop village to be used by the sea wolves as coolies, but later Heitou and Sun Baoqiang felt that this seemed a bit wasteful, so they tried to use some of them as guides.

Later, they found that these natives have a strong adaptability in the mountains and forests, can distinguish directions in the dense forest, and are very vigilant, and some can even hunt prey with their bare hands to help the sea wolf people find their way.

So they selected some of the young and strong among the native slaves and organized them into auxiliary soldiers, which were used full-time to cooperate with the soldiers to go into the mountains to explore and hunt.

And after these native auxiliaries stayed in the chicken coop village for a period of time, they gradually adapted to the life here, and they found that living with these outsiders was much better than the life they used to live in the mountains and forests and drinking blood, and these outsiders were actually not as bad as they thought, once they got acquainted, these outsiders were also good to them.

In particular, some of the natives who were injured and captured by the sea wolf before, after arriving at the chicken coop village, someone treated their injuries and saved their lives, and these outsiders have a very miraculous wound medicine, which can relieve pain and heal wounds after covering the wounds, which is much stronger than the witch doctors of the tribe in the mountains and forests before.

In addition, they can get clothing here, and they can get food on time and rations, and if they help the sea wolves catch prey, the sea wolf tribes will also reward them with meat, in short, the living conditions are quite good.

In addition, the natives have their own way of knowing, and in their opinion, once they are defeated, they will either be captured and killed and eaten by the enemy, or they will become the slaves of the other party, or they will simply join the other party and become the enemy's people, and they all have this consciousness for this.

Now that they are caught by these outsiders, whether they are working as coolies or guides, they are at least much better than being killed and eaten, so they are all relatively relieved.

In addition, the black head deliberately wanted to buy the hearts of these natives, and after selecting them as auxiliaries, their treatment was greatly improved, and their food, clothing, and housing were much better than before.

What's more, they are now afraid from their hearts that these outsiders have fire-breathing people in their hands, and they feel that these outsiders have divine powers, can control fire, and use fire-breathing to help them kill, so they are very in awe of the sea wolf tribes, but they have not made any betrayal, which is much more loyal than many people on land.

The ability of these natives has been fully explored, and in the past few months, they have followed the sea wolf tribe into the mountains to hunt, so that the sea wolf tribe has learned a lot of experience in surviving and fighting in the mountains and forests with them, so that Yu Xiaotian finally has a capable team that can fight in the mountains and forests.

In addition, there are these native auxiliaries, which can be used as scouts for them, making the combat capability of their mountain troops very impressive.

After getting out of the chicken coop village, Sun Baoqiang divided the team into three groups, each group of three squads, equipped with thirty or forty soldiers, and each group was equipped with twenty native auxiliaries, so that each of them had quite strong combat effectiveness and could deal with many natives alone.

Compared with a year ago, the level of equipment of the Seawolf troops has changed from shotguns, and now the proportion of musketeers among the Seawolf soldiers has been as high as four or five percent, all of them are equipped with a standard Nanji-style flintlock pistol, each person is also equipped with a bayonet and a bamboo grenade and an iron grenade, and when they go to war, each person also carries forty rounds of ammunition and a small horn bottle filled with primer.

The rest of the soldiers are mostly pikemen and knife players, which can be used as a supplement to the musketeers, and when necessary, they engage in melee combat with the enemy to cover the musketeers, and because the sea wolf's musketeers are equipped with bayonets, the musketeers also gain considerable melee ability, so the sea wolf's soldiers have a stronger firepower output ability than the general army, and at the same time, it also ensures that their melee ability is not inferior to the enemy.

And because the sea wolf has been fighting and hunting in recent years, it has obtained a lot of whale skin, although the whale skin is not as tough as the yellow cow skin or buffalo skin, but after special treatment, it is also quite good, and now the sea wolf's soldiers are issued with a set of whale skin armor, this kind of leather armor mainly covers the chest and abdomen, shoulders, thighs, front and upper arms, and does not cover the whole body, so that although the protection is slightly lower, but the load of the soldiers is reduced, so that after wearing the leather armor, the limbs are not much restricted, Make it flexible.

Therefore, the sea wolf's soldiers in this era, is definitely an elite soldier, basically comparable to the quality of the equipment of any army in this world, but unfortunately their number is still a little too small, not enough to dominate the city, if one day the sea wolf's soldiers expand to the extent of several thousand, it is estimated that looking at the southern coastal area, it is difficult to find a team that can compete with it.

Yu Xiaotian's next step is to focus on building such a force of soldiers and horses, which will be used for land warfare with the enemy when necessary.

However, if you want to build a team of thousands of such soldiers and horses, it is not an easy thing, the recruitment, training and cultivation of soldiers requires considerable resources, and the equipment of each soldier also needs more than a dozen taels of silver, among which the equipment of the musketeer consumes the most, and if the whole body is neatly worn, it will cost at least more than 20 taels of silver.

If he builds such a team of thousands of soldiers, Yu Xiaotian will have to invest at least hundreds of thousands of taels of silver, which is not possible for the time being for his current financial resources, so he can only meet his needs with the elite soldier policy, and strive to make his subordinates be able to use one as ten, as for the future, it can only be done slowly.

To make a long story short, after Yu Xiaotian entered the mountain with this sea wolf's soldiers this time, he did not interfere with Sun Baoqiang's command, but put himself in the position of a bystander, coldly observing the performance of this black-headed mountain army they had trained.

After entering the mountain, this capable team of soldiers did perform quite well, and the three detachments first marched quickly in the mountains, crossed the mountains and crossed the jungle and ravines, avoided many dangerous places, and arrived at the south side of the Jilong Mountain at a very fast speed.

Then the three detachments dispersed with Sun Baoqiang's order, kept a certain interval, and began to form a straggler formation, with the native auxiliary soldiers as the lead, so that the native auxiliary soldiers opened the way in front, forming a vigilant formation and began to enter the territory of the native tribe.

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